Anyone ready for the weekend? Oh yeah, me too!!! :). As host of your weekend challenge, I've rounded up three sets of prompts. Just comment with 'TGIF,' or 'Woo hoo!' or any other thing Friday inspires in you. In return, I'll send you:

1- An image of a random place - either a locale or a more generic (but hopefully interesting) space. 2- An AU career for your fictional darlings. Am thinking of this one as a drabble challenge- give us 100-200 or so words of them living very different lives.3- Overheard: A short snippet of conversation overheard on the street that caught my ear.

No kidding! I'm not usually happy to see August go, but in this case i'll make an exception. :).

AU Career: Bartender

Overheard: "Do you want to go down horse crap lane, or cross the street?"- background: this was a couple about to walk up Central Park South, where all the carriage horses sit waiting to trot visitors around the park and, unfortunately, some city streets. Let's just say... it's always an aromatic street, lol. But the horses are cute and all decked out.

Random Place: [Spoiler (click to open)]Oooh, how pretty- a Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast. Now I want to write a B&B AU, lol. And maybe bacon and eggs.....

Overheard: Person 1: "I want to kill myself, now..."Person 2: "Why, what happened?"- note: this was not so dire as it might read. It was more an embarassment, 'I can't believe I said that, I wouldn't have if I'd known that.....'

Aw, thank you! :). I can use the encouragement- my fictional darlings have been fighting me lately, lol. They don't seem to want me to write them. But I am very close to finishing a chapter, so will aim to do that today.

Overheard: "So it created this moment of 'I have a secret stash you don't have,' and that created, like, 'your secret stash is unfair.' - note: this sounded like someone who had recently been a camp counselor recounting her experience managing the kids' wars during summer camp.